Oceans of Love

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne today with a soft, seashore inspired card.  This card uses dies from the Pirates & Sea Creatures release as well as a die from the new Beach & Tropical release.  I was originally inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest.  And as often happens, that was just a jumping off point for my final design.  I was also inspired by the sand/blue/white color combination we so often see in ocean and beach decor.  I kept my color palette very simple for this card

I'll start with the background of the card.  I used my Misti to stamp a large (6 x 6 inch) background stamp in Versamark ink and then I heat embossed it in white.

Next I used three colors of blue Distress Oxide inks to blend an ocean backdrop.

Using the largest of the Wacky Stitched Rectangle dies I cut a panel from the embossed sheet and adhered this to a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock.

I have a tool which allows me to cut a mat from 1/16 to about 1/2 or 3/4 inches.  Here I used the 1/8 inch mark to get a nice border.

I adhered this to a white A2 card base.

Next I worked on the seahorse and ocean bed.  I cut the seahorse from Cool Caribbean cardstock and used Crumb Cake ink to shade the edges.

After assembling him I used a Nuvo Shimmer pen (similar to Wink of Stella) to add sparkle.  I covered him two times.

I used the Tropical Fish and Sandcastle dies to cut the seaweed, sand and shells.

I glued down the sand and seaweed leaving one piece glued just at the bottom so that it could be entwined with the seahorse.  I used foam dots to pop him up off the card.

The sentiment was stamped in Crumb Cake ink and I cut the point with scissors.  I decided to add a small bow at the top.

I added a few crystal drops as "bubbles".  In this photo you can see the detail of the die and the shimmer on the seahorse.

I hope you enjoyed the card today be sure to stop by the online store where the Pirates & Sea Creatures and the new Beach & Tropical releases are on sale for a limited time.

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Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you have a fun and creative weekend!

Beautiful Sea!

Good Morning!

It is Pam sharing with you today! I hope you are having a fantastic summer.  I live in the Hilton Head area so we have a good number of tourist coming to visit.  And the biggest draw is the beautiful Atlantic Ocean!  So I thought I would do an ocean themed card inspired by our beautiful sea!

Here are the design steps:

1.  Use inks on watercolor paper direct to paper then use water and a stipple brush to move the ink around on the paper

2.  Distress the edges of the paper and use distress ink on the edges

3.  Use a stencil and translucent embossing paste to create the bubbles

4.  Glue Prills to the bottom of the card to create the sand

 5.  Use Kraft card stock and cut out the Cottage Cutz Sand Dollar and Sea Horse

 6.  Ink the Sand Dollar and Sea Horse then splatter with a dark brown ink

7.  Cut seaweed using the Under the Sea die and ink the seaweed.  Attach a piece of cheese cloth that has been lightly inked to the center of the card. Then attach all of the dies.  Last splatter the entire card with dark brown ink

I hope you take a walk outside and let nature inspire you!

Blessings
Pam